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Ah, Aristo! Queen pours gravy for corgis

The Queen has been a fan of corgis since her father brought some home in the 1930s (Fox Photos)

THE Queen’s corgis enjoy fillet steak and chicken breast prepared by a chef,
delivered by a footman, and covered with gravy poured by the monarch
herself, according to a new book.

The Queen’s love of her corgis and dorgis (a cross between a corgi and a
dachshund) is well known, but the new details of her obsession are revealed
by Brian Hoey, a royal biographer.

In Pets by Royal Appointment, to be published this week, Hoey says a royal
dress-maker told him that the Queen carried a magnet when she was having
clothes fitted and used it to comb the room for any stray pins and needles
“so the dogs don’t hurt their paws”.

The biographer says that the four dogs have dinner at 5pm in Buckingham
Palace. They never eat tinned food and have to wait until the Queen has
added the gravy to their steak or chicken. “Then